“Radiohead picked this song for their name as a joke, because they thought this album sucked and they thought this song REALLY sucked. It’s mentioned in the book «Exit Music: The Radiohead Story»”:

“If the name of this band couldn’t be On A Friday, then what could it be? The answer was soon found on the back sleeve of Talking Heads’ 1986 album True Stories, the companion to leader David Byrne’s film of the same name. There lurked the two words «Radio Head», making up the title of a rather annoying pseudo-reggae number (though certain cheeky band members would later go on record as saying they picked the title because they felt it was the LEAST annoying song on the album).”

[Integral: Everything in Its Right Place, Kid A, The National Anthem, How to Disappear Completely, Treefingers, Optimistic, In Limbo, Idioteque, Morning Bell, Motion Picture Soundtrack]

5. Amnesiac, 2001

[Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army?, I Might Be Wrong, Knives out, Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Dollars and Cents, Hunting Bears, Like Spinning Plates, Life in a Glasshouse]

La Amnesiac n-am menționat piesele 1. și 3., dar amintesc niște versuri (1. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box: “After years of waiting nothing came / And you realize you’re looking in the wrong place”, 3. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors: “There are doors that let you in and out / But never open”; revolving doors = uși rotative).

6. Hail to the Thief, 2003

[Integral: 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm), Sit Down. Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders), Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky), Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over), Go to Sleep (Little Man Being Erased), Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In), We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up), The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold), There There (The Boney King of Nowhere), I Will (No Man’s Land), A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No), Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner), Scatterbrain (As Dead as Leaves), A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll)]

“Thom Yorke admitted that he was «amazed it got the reaction it did. None of us fucking knew any more whether it was good or bad. What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create.»”

Thom Yorke: “I was really, really amazed at how badly was being viewed, because the music’s not that hard to grasp. We’re not trying to be difficult... We’re actually trying to communicate but somewhere along the line, we just seemed to piss off a lot of people... What we’re doing isn’t that radical.”

Hail to the Thief, 2003

“Yorke denied that Hail to the Thief’s title was a comment on the controversial 2000 US presidential election, explaining that he first heard the words in a BBC Radio 4 discussion of 19th-century American politics.Yorke said his lyrics had been affected by news reports of war in 2001 to 2002 and «the feeling that we are entering an age of intolerance and fear where the power to express ourselves in a democracy and have our voices heard is being denied us.»”

“Following the band’s sudden announcement 10 days beforehand, Radiohead’s unusual strategy received much notice within the music industry and beyond.1.2 million downloads were reportedly sold by the day of release,but the band’s management did not release official sales figures, claiming that the Internet-only distribution was intended to boost later retail sales. In a 2011 appearance on The Colbert Report, Ed O’Brien said of the self-release strategy: «We sell less records, but we make more money.»Colin Greenwood explained the Internet release as a way of avoiding the «regulated playlists» and «straitened formats» of radio and TV, ensuring fans around the world could all experience the music at the same time, and preventing leaks in advance of a physical release. In Rainbows sold more than three million copies within one year of release.”

“On 16 June 2012, an hour before gates were due to open at Toronto’s Downsview Park for the final concert of Radiohead’s North American tour, the roof of the venue’s temporary stage collapsed, killing drum technician Scott Johnson and injuring three other members of Radiohead’s touring technical crew; members of Radiohead and opening act Caribou were not on the stage at the time. The collapse also destroyed the band’s light show and much of their musical equipment. The concert was cancelled and Radiohead’s tour dates in Europe were postponed. After rescheduling the tour, Radiohead paid tribute to Johnson and their stage crew at their next concert, in Nimes, France, in July. Yorke wrote that finishing the tour after the collapse was his «biggest achievement so far».In June 2013, the Ontario Ministry of Labour charged Live Nation Canada Inc, Live Nation Ontario Concerts GP Inc, Optex Staging & Services Inc and an engineer with 13 charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The case started on 27 June at the Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto.”

- The lead singer, principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the bands Radiohead and Atoms for Peace.

- Thom was born with a paralysed left eye and underwent five eye operations by the age of six. During this time he had to wear a patch over his eye. He stated that the last surgery was “botched”, giving him a drooping eyelid.

- He received his first guitar when he was seven; his earliest musical inspiration was guitarist Brian May of Queen (idem – prima trupă pe care am ascultat-o). By 11, he had joined his first band and written his first song. He attended the all-boys public school Abingdon in Oxford, where he met future band members Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway and brothers Colin and Jonny Greenwood.

- He studied Fine Art and English at Exeter University.

- Yorke, unlike the other members of Radiohead, has never learned how to read music. He said: “If someone lays the notes on a page in front of me, it’s meaningless... because to me you can’t express the rhythms properly like that. It’s a very ineffective way of doing it, so I’ve never really bothered picking it up.”

- Outside music, Yorke is notable as a political activist on behalf of human rights, environmentalist and anti-war causes. He is a vegetarian.

Wikipedia: Amok, also spelled amuk, from the Malay language is “an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malay culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures”. The syndrome of “Amok” is found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR). The phrase is often used in a less serious manner when describing something that is wildly out of control or causing a frenzy (e.g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be termed as “running amok”).

Alte colaborări cu:

- Björk, piesa I’ve Seen It All, albumul Selmasongs (apare pe coloana sonoră a filmului Dancer in the Dark, regizor Lars von Trier). Yorke and Björk worked together again on the charity single “Náttúra”.

- Greenwood is the only member of Radiohead to have been classically trained on any instrument and the only band member without a university degree; he was three weeks into a degree in music and psychology at Oxford Brookes University when Radiohead, then known as On a Friday, signed a recording contract with EMI in 1991, and left soon after.

- In the 1990s, Greenwood wore an arm brace due to a repetitive strain injury attributed to his aggressive playing, saying “it’s like taping up your fingers before a boxing match.”

- Greenwood has stated that his all time favourite piece of music is Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony, a gigantic piece for orchestra that features an Ondes Martenot, an instrument he discovered as a teenager.

- In 2003 Greenwood, an amateur photographer whose images are often posted on Radiohead’s website, discussed his favourite images in the V&A’s photography gallery, a collection “ranging from early daguerreotype and calotype prints through to modern digital prints”, as part of their accompanying website’s Personal Tours. Greenwood chose images by Frederick Sommer and Harold Edgerton among several others.

- In 2004 Greenwood served as a judge for the Next Generation Poets talent contest, sponsored by the Arts Council of England. The same year, he participated on a panel in the annual sixth form conference run by Radley College, speaking on digital-rights management (DRM).

- In 2008, in his first music project not involving other members of Radiohead, Colin played bass on James Lavino’s score to the Alex Karpovsky film Woodpecker.

- O’Brien uses a large collection of effects pedals to help create Radiohead’s distinct sound.

- As well as being a self-taught guitarist, he is an accomplished drummer.

- He is responsible for harmony vocals during live concerts and on many tracks from the band’s albums, occasionally with drummer Phil Selway.

- O’Brien made contributions to a soundtrack project for the BBC drama series Eureka Street.

- He is a founding director of the Featured Artists Coalition.

- O’Brien and bandmate Phil Selway had programming lessons with producer/engineer Phelan Kane at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London in 2001, and the same two band members also joined the 7 Worlds Collide project.

- Selway is well known for his precision and proficiency in various styles and unusual time signatures, being named the 26th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008.

- Before Radiohead became successful, Selway studied Literature, Life and Thought (English and History) at Liverpool University. Before that he had studied maths, worked for various touring musicians and as an English teacher as well.

- Since 1991, he has worked as a listening volunteer with Samaritans (a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland).

- He appeared in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a member of the band “The Weird Sisters” along with Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood.

The Daily Mail / Staircaseis a 2011 single. Both tracks are taken from the live video The King Of Limbs: Live from the Basement.

“In an interview for BBC Radio 6 Music, O’Brien explained that Staircase was worked on before the recording of Radiohead’s eighth album The King of Limbs (2011), but did not progress beyond the demo stages until after the album’s release.”

An album by the Easy Star All-Stars, a collaboration of reggae and ska artists. They have released previously Dub Side of the Moon, a reggae take on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Radiodread is a complete, song by song makeover of Radiohead’s OK Computer into reggae, ska and dub.

A work for instrumental ensemble by American composer Steve Reich inspired by two songs by Radiohead, Jigsaw Falling into Place and Everything in Its Right Place. It has five movements, alternating fast and slow, and is scored for clarinet, flute, two violins, viola, cello, two vibraphones, two pianos and electric bass. Steve Reich is one of the founders of the minimalist movement in music.

Edward Clug (born in 1973 in Beiuş, Romania) is an independent dance choreographer in the field of contemporary ballet and a director of Slovenian company Maribor Ballet. Clug studied classical ballet in Cluj-Napoca. Radio and Juliet is an hour long ballet created in 2005. The ballet is a rendition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set to the music of Radiohead.

Dead Children Playing is a picture book by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, featuring artwork that has been used on Radiohead’s albums between 1996 and 2003 and on Thom Yorke’s album The Eraser. The book also contains works of art that have not previously been released, made between 1999 and 2005.

Artist Stanley Donwoodcreated the cover art for every Radiohead album and promotional material, since The Bends, as well as Yorke’s solo work and Amok. Yorke and Donwood met as art students at the University of Exeter. Yorke is credited alongside Donwood under the nicknames “The White Chocolate Farm”, “Dr. Tchock”, “Tchocky” or similar abbreviations.

In March 2008, AniBoom together with Radiohead launched the In Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest. Animators from all over the world competed out of over one thousand entries. Radiohead chose 4 grand winners, each winner received $10,000. Radiohead contributed the extra $30,000 to make four full length videos possible.